MENTAL CULTURE.

OR THE MEANS OF

DEVELOPING THE HUMAN FACULTIES.

BY J. L. LEVISON.

"The volume of nature is the book of knowledge; and he becomes
most wise, who makes the most judicious selection." GOLDSMITH.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

AND SOLD BY JACKSON AND WALFORD,
18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

1833.

LOUTH:

PRINTED BY J. AND J. JACKSON.

PREFACE.

In this volume, which is submitted to the unprejudiced, we have endeavoured to show how practical and easy Moral Culture becomes, when the real nature of man is understood. It is the peculiar duty of those who frame the laws of a country, and of those who administer them for the preservation of society, to adopt such a system of mental philosophy as will enable them to ascertain what number of the primitive faculties are connate, and also to distinguish between their uses and their abused states. This knowledge, indeed, would give incalculable advantages to all who influence society, and particularly to the Parent and Teacher: it would enable them to discriminate those excesses of the feelings which result from mis-directed or neglected education, and demonstrate the circumstances most favourable to give a moral and intellectual bias to the